I really dig on vert skating still too..but I also like seeing crazy gaps and stairs being taken on, and skaters grinding stuff that seem too long or that look impossible getting in a position to grind said grind stuff
I guess that's why I never really cared for vert skating. When I watch vert, especially back then, I see frontside indy, frontside stale, frontside mute, backside mute, allyoop, McTwist, frontside indy tweak, backside railside. Next skater, same run, next skater, same run. It's a bunch of 180* variants, always seemed boring to me. Even watching the videos, I would watch the whole thing the first viewing, then every time after I would FFW through the vert stuff.